World Literatures Requirements

Requirements and Worksheet

The World Literatures major requires 36 credits:

All of the following are required (12 credit hours):

Comp St 2301 Introduction to World Literature
Comp St 3302 Translating Literatures and Cultures
Comp St 3990 Approaches to Comparative Studies (or an approved substitute)
Comp St 3903 World Literature: Theory and Practice

Distribution Requirement (24 credit hours):

All five geo-political regions must be represented by at least one course (5 courses, 15 semester hours) and three regions must each be represented by two courses (3 courses, 9 semester hours). One cross-cultural course may be substituted, but each of the five regions must be represented by at least one course.  At least three of these courses must be at the 4000-level or higher.

The five regions are:

Cross/Cultural courses are listed here: Cross/Cultural

Courses that fulfill the distribution requirement (by region) are listed below.

Electives

 

Africa  

African American and African Studies

• 2251 Introduction to African Literature
• 2367.04 Black Women Writers: Text and Context
• 4551 Topics in Africana Literature
• 4460 Political Thought in African Literature
• 4584H Literature and Modern Experience in Africa

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East And South Asia / Pacific

Chinese

• 2451 Chinese Literature in Translation
• 4401 Chinese Poetry in Translation
• 4402 Traditional Chinese Fiction in Translation
• 4403 Modern Chinese Literature in Translation
• 4404 Chinese Drama in Translation
• 4407 Eco-Literature in China
• 6451 History of Chinese Literature I
• 6452 History of Chinese Literature II

East Asian

• 5475 Women Writers, Culture, and Society in East Asia

Japanese

• 2451 Japanese Literature in Translation
• 2452 Modern Japanese Literature in Translation
• 4401 Japanese Literature in Critical Perspective
• 5454 Japanese Literature: Classical Period
• 5455 Japanese Literature: Medieval and Edo Periods
• 5456 Japanese Literature: Modern Period

Korean

• 2451 Korean Literature in Translation
• 5405 Korean Drama in Translation

 

Latin America / Caribbean

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African American and African Studies

• 2253 Introduction to Caribbean Literature

Comparative Studies

• 4805 Literature of the Americas

Portuguese

• 2335 Cannibal Brazil: Cultural Encounters and Negotiations of Identity in Literature

Spanish

• 2151 Latin American Literature and Culture
• 2330 Reinventing America
• 2331 Caribbean Cultures
• 2520 Latin American Literatures (in translation): Fiction and Reality
• 4590H Interdisciplinary Protocols: Identity and National Formation in Latin America: Perspectives from Literature

 

Middle East

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Arabic

• 2701 Classical and Medieval Arabic Literature in Translation
• 2702 Modern Arabic Literature in Translation (cross-listed with Women’s Studies)
• 2705 The Arabian Nights
• 3501 Middle Eastern Literature and Postcolonial Theory
• 5701The Qur'an in Translation
• 5702 Arabic Folk Narrative in Translation

Hebrew

• 2210 The Jewish Mystical Tradition
• 2700 Biblical and Post-Biblical Hebrew Literature in Translation
• 2701 Medieval Hebrew Literature in Translation
• 2702 Modern Hebrew Literature in Translation
• 2703 Prophecy in the Bible and Post-Biblical Literature
• 2704 Women in Biblical and Post-Biblical Literature
• 2708 Biblical and Post-Biblical Wisdom Literature
• 5802 The Problem of Evil in Biblical and Post-Biblical Literature

Persian

• 2301 Persian Mythology and Folklore
• 2701 Persian Literature in Translation
• 2704 Introduction to Persian Epic

Turkish

• 2701 Turkish Literature in Translation

Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

• 3700 Mythology of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
• 3702 Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World
• 3704 The Novel in the Middle East
• 4601 Israeli and Palestinian Literature
• 5571 Canon and Communities in the Near East

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

• 3372 Modern Arabic Literature in Translation (cross-listed with Arabic)

 

North America and Europe

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African American and African Studies

• 2281 Intro to African American Literature
• 2367.01 African-American Theatre History
• 2367.04 Black Women Writers: Text and Context
• 4582 Special Topics in African American Literature

Arabic

• 2367 Issues in Arab-American Society, Culture, and Literature

Classics

• 2220 Classical Mythology
• 2890H Topics in Ancient Literature and Socie
• 3100 Topics in Ancient Literature & Culture
• 3101 Greek & Roman Epic
• 3102 Greek & Roman Drama
• 3103 Comic Spirit in Antiquity
• 3104 The Ancient Novel: Narrative Fiction in Greece
• 3215 Sex and Gender in the Ancient World
• 3403 The Hero in Classical Mythology

Comparative Studies

• 2105 Literature and Ethnicity
• 3604 Women in East Asian and Asian-American Literature
• 4803 Studies in Asian American Literature and Culture (cross-listed in English)
• 4804 Studies in Latino/a Literature and Culture (cross-listed in English)

English

• 4513 Introduction to Medieval Literature
• 4514 Middle English Literature
• 4515 Chaucer
• 4520.01 Shakespeare
• 4520.02 Special Topics in Shakespeare
• 4521 Renaissance Drama
• 4522 Renaissance Poetry
• 4523 Special Topics in Renaissance Literature and Culture
• 4531 Restoration & 18^th-Century Literature
• 4533 The Early British Novel: Origins to 1830
• 4535 Special Topics in Restoration and 18^th-Century British Literature and Culture
• 4540 19^th-Century British Poetry
• 4542 19^th-Century British Novel
• 4543 20^th-Century British Fiction
• 4547 20^th-Century Poetry
• 4549 Modern Drama
• 4550 Special Topics in Colonial and Early National Literature of the U.S.
• 4551 Special Topics in 19^th-Century U.S. Literature
• 4552 Special Topics in American Poety through 1915
• 4553 20th-Century U.S. Fiction
• 4560 Special Topics in Poetry
• 4561 Studies in Fictional and Nonfictional Narrative
• 4562 Studies in Literature and the Other Arts
• 4563 Contemporary Literature
• 4575 Special Topics in Literary Forms and Themes
• 4580 Special Topics in LGBTQ Literatures and Cultures
• 4581 Special Topics in U.S. Ethnic Literatures
• 4582 Studies in African American Literature
• 4586 Studies in American Indian Literature and Culture
• 4587 Studies in Asian American Literature and Culture (cross-listed in Comparative Studies)
• 4588 Studies in Latino/a Literature and Culture (cross-listed in Comparative Studies)
• 4590H Honors Seminars: Major Periods in Literary History
• 4592 Special Topics in Women in Literature and Culture
• 4598H Honors Seminar: Selected Topics in Literature and Literary Interpretation

French

• 2501 Topics in French Literature and Culture in Translation

German

• 2251 German Literature and Popular Culture
• 2252H The Faust Theme
• 2253 Magic, Murder, and Mayhem
• 3351 Democracy, Fascism, and German Culture
• 4252 Masterpieces of German Literature

Modern Greek

• 2500H Greek Identities: Ancient and Modern
• 3710 Modern Greek Literature in Translation

Polish

• 5230 Polish Literature

Russian

• 2250 Masterpieces of Russian Literature
• 3644 Russian Fairy Tales and Folklore
• 4220 Love and Death in Russian Literature
• 4221 Revolution and Restoration in Russian Literature
• 5250 The Russian Writer

Scandinavian

• 3350 Norse Mythology and Medieval Culture
• 4250 Masterpieces of Scandinavian Literature

Slavic

• 2230 Vampires, Monstrosity, and Evil: From Slavic Myth to Twilight
• 2345 Introduction to Slavic and East European Literature and Culture
• 2367 The East European Experience in America
• 3320 Science Fiction: East vs. West
• 4260H Dead Man Writing: Literary Representations of Capital Punishment
• 4560H Cinderella's Fantasy: Gender and Women in Western and Eastern Europe
• 5280 Slavic and East European Literature
• 5570 The Austro-Hungarian Grotesque

Spanish

• 2150 Cultures and Literatures of Spain
• 2320 Don Quixote in Translation
• 2321 The Spanish Don Juan Theme in the Theatre

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

• 2367.01 U.S. Women Writers: Text and Context
• 2367.02 U.S. Latina Writers: Text and Context
• 2367.03 Lesbian Writers: Text and Context
• 2367.04 Black Women Writers: Text and Context

Yiddish

• 2367 Jewish-American Voices in U.S. Literature
• 3371 Yiddish Literature in Translation
• 3399 Holocaust in Yiddish and Ashkenazic Literature and Film
• 5641 Places in Ashkenaz

 

Cross-Cultural Courses (Only one course may be chosen and counted toward one of the regions; all five regions must be represented.)

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African American and African Studies

• 3451 Themes in Francophone African and Caribbean Literature
• 4551 Topics in Africana Literature

Comparative Studies

• 2102.01 Literature and Religion
• 2103 Literature and the Self
• 2104 Literature, Science, and Technology
• 3603 Love in World Literature
• 3604 Women in East Asian and Asian-American Literature
• 3606 The Quest in World Literature
• 3607 Film and Literature as Narrative Art
• 3608 Representations of the Experience of War
• 4808 Utopia and Anti-Utopia
• 4809 The Twentieth-Century Novel: Transnational Contexts
• 5864 Modernity and Postmodernity: Concepts and Theories
• 5602 Poetry and Politics in the 20^th-Century Mediterranean (cross-listed with NELC)

East Asian Literatures and Languages

• H3299 East Asian Thought in the Western Imagination, 1600-2000

English

• 4583 Special Topics in World Literature in English

Linguistics

• 3603 Language across Cultures

Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

• 5672 Poetry and Politics in the 20th-Century Mediterranean (cross-listed with Comparative Studies)

Portuguese

• 2150 Intro to the Literatures of the Portuguese-Speaking World

Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

• 2215 Reading Women Writers

 

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